{"id":45656,"date":"2019-03-22T06:15:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/2019\/03\/22\/ex-ecuador-football-chief-chiriboga-receives-life-ban\/"},"modified":"2019-03-22T06:28:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:28:48","slug":"ex-ecuador-football-chief-chiriboga-receives-life-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/ex-ecuador-football-chief-chiriboga-receives-life-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Ecuador football chief Chiriboga receives life ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quito, March 22 (IANS)<\/strong> Former Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) president Luis Chiriboga has been banned for life and fined more than a million US dollars for corruption, world football governing body FIFA said.<\/p>\n<p>Chiriboga was found guilty of accepting bribes in exchange for awarding lucrative media and marketing rights for tournaments such as the Copa America and Copa Libertadores, reports Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>“The adjudicatory chamber found that Mr Chiriboga had breached article 27 (bribery) of the 2018 edition of the FIFA Code of Ethics and banned him for life from all football-related activities… at both national and international level,” FIFA said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It added that Chiriboga was fined a million swiss francs ($1.01 million).<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old, a former member of FIFA’s standing committee and the South American Football Confederation’s (CONMEBOL) executive committee, was jailed for 10 years by an<br \/>\nEcuadorian judge in 2016 for graft.<\/p>\n<p>He was in charge of the FEF for 18 years before being placed under house arrest in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>–IANS<br \/>\ngau\/bc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quito, March 22 (IANS) Former Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) president Luis Chiriboga has been banned for life and fined more than a million US dollars for corruption, world football governing body FIFA said. 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